A Beautiful Alien
A Beautiful Alien

Author: Julia Magruder

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-17

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13:

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'A Beautiful Alien' is a romance novel written by Julia Magruder. The story begins by introducing us to Albert Noel, an artist who practices law, on a ship from Europe. He becomes captivated by a beautiful woman walking on the deck with her husband. Observing her from an artist's perspective, he considers her as a potential subject for a painting. When the woman, who speaks English with a foreign accent, complains of being tired, she suddenly decides to sit down next to Noel.

Beautiful Monsters
Beautiful Monsters

Author: David McIntee

Publisher: TELOS

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781903889947

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The end of the 1970s was a turning point for science fiction and horror films. A new film would blend these genres together into a cinematic experience that would cross boundries, and which would feature a villain that audiences and critics alike would find far scarier than the knife wielding antics of Michael Myers or Jason and Pamela Voorhees That film was Alicn. In this unofficial companion, David McIntee takes us behind the scenes to reveal how the Alien films were developed, what their influences and antecedents were, and how they have continued to develop and influence to this day. We also take in the popular Predator films and see how, through various ranges of spin off merchandise, we arrived at the 2004 clash of the titans, the long awaited Alicn vs Predator movie. This book takes you further than ever before into the domain of the beautiful monsters. Book jacket.

Dancing with an Alien
Dancing with an Alien

Author: Mary Logue

Publisher: HarperTeen

Published: 2002-02-05

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9780064472098

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When Tonia meets Branko, an alien who was sent to earth to bring a female back to his planet, her life is forever changed as their unusual relationship develops over one magical summer. Reprint.

Typeset in the Future
Typeset in the Future

Author: Dave Addey

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2018-12-11

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 168335334X

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A designer’s deep dive into seven science fiction films, filled with “gloriously esoteric nerdery [and] observations as witty as they are keen” (Wired). In Typeset in the Future, blogger and designer Dave Addey invites sci-fi movie fans on a journey through seven genre-defining classics, discovering how they create compelling visions of the future through typography and design. The book delves deep into 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Alien, Blade Runner, Total Recall, WALL·E, and Moon, studying the design tricks and inspirations that make each film transcend mere celluloid and become a believable reality. These studies are illustrated by film stills, concept art, type specimens, and ephemera, plus original interviews with Mike Okuda (Star Trek), Paul Verhoeven (Total Recall), and Ralph Eggleston and Craig Foster (Pixar). Typeset in the Future is an obsessively geeky study of how classic sci-fi movies draw us in to their imagined worlds.

Alien Worlds
Alien Worlds

Author: David Aguilar

Publisher: National Geographic Kids

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 1426311109

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Considers the plausibility of alien life and what creatures living on extrasolar planets might be like, drawing on scientific sources to depict alien creatures who have adapted to the unique characteristics of their respective environments.

Alien People
Alien People

Author: John Coon

Publisher: Samak Press

Published: 2020-09-01

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13:

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A message from across the galaxy. A journey to a distant world. Will first contact bring new understanding … or death? Calandra Menankar dreams of becoming her planet’s top astronomer. So when a probe from a place called Earth rockets into her solar system, she’s determined to uncover its secrets. And when the foreign craft transmits a message of peace, Calandra secures permission to voyage to the unknown orb despite brittle bones that could make space travel fatal. Teaming up with her boyfriend pilot, Xttra Oogan, the two cross the stars towards the mysterious blue-green globe unaware one of their crew hides a sinister agenda. And when they translate the Earthian communications, Calandra and Xttra fear the probe may have led them into a deathtrap far from home … Will traversing the Milky Way to a dangerous, new planet make both explorers wish they never left home? Alien People is a thrilling and captivating science-fiction adventure novel from bestselling author John Coon. If you like nail-biting action, high adventure, and ambitious characters, then you’ll love this immersive first contact sci-fi tale set within the same fictional universe as Under a Fallen Sun.

Alien Hearts
Alien Hearts

Author: Guy de Maupassant

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2011-06-08

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1590174399

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Alien Hearts was the last book that Guy de Maupassant finished before his death at the early age of forty-three. It is the most original and psychologically penetrating of his several novels, and the one in which he attains a truly tragic perception of the wounded human heart. André Mariolle is a rich, handsome, gifted young man who cannot settle on what to do with himself. Madame de Burne, a glacially dazzling beauty, wants Mariolle to attend her exclusive salon for artists, composers, writers, and other intellectuals. At first Mariolle keeps his distance, but then he hits on the solution to all his problems: caring for nothing in particular, he will devote himself to being in love; Madame de Burne will be his everything. Soon lover and beloved are equally lost within a hall of mirrors of their common devising. Richard Howard’s new English translation of this complex and brooding novel—the first in more than a hundred years—reveals the final, unexpected flowering of a great French realist’s art.

Making of Alien Resurrection
Making of Alien Resurrection

Author: Andrew Murdock

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks

Published: 1997-11-28

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9780061053788

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Alien Resurrection marks the fourth installment in the Alien science-fiction film series. The story takes us into deep space where the USS Auriga is the venue for clandestine scientific experiments in the name of medical advancement. The arrival of the Betty, a rock 'n' roll spacecraft with a cargo of live hosts and a volatile crew, plants the seeds for confirmation and conflict. Sigourney Weaver returns as the genetically corrupted Lieutenant Ripley, and is joined by Winona Ryder, as the auton robot Call and an eclectic crew of renegade space pirates in a quest to find meaning in a world that seeks to tamper with the lethal and mysterious alien life form. Director Jean-Pierre Jeuenet, who generated the abstract and visually arresting films Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children, takes creative license to establish another uniquely stylized futuristic vision. The Making of Alien Resurrection is a celebration of the creative process involved in the completion of a major feature film. Join the director, cinematographer, designers, editors, visual effects consultants, special effects technicians, artists, sculptors and a myriad of other talented people in a collaborative journey to fabricate an idiosyncratic perception of the future.

The Only Alien on the Planet
The Only Alien on the Planet

Author: Kristen Randle

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2009-09-01

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1402249276

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Winner of multiple awards, praised by librarians and teachers as one of the best books ever written for teens—NOW BACK IN PRINT! New town, new school, new friends. It was difficult for Ginny at first, but her senior year is finally starting to feel kind of normal. That is, until she sees him—the beautiful mystery in her English class. He has never spoken a word to anyone. He moves through each day at school without making eye contact. His name is Smitty Tibbs, but everyone calls him the Alien. Ginny is convinced there's more to the Alien than his muted exterior. But as she attempts to break into his safe and emotionless world, she realizes her efforts might be causing more harm than good. Has she gone too far, or not far enough? "Utterly compelling...totally satisfying. A fast-moving, unusual contemporary romance that should have great appeal." School Library Journal "The thick wall an abused teenager builds between himself and the world is penetrated at last by an extraordinary pair of friends... A strong book with healing at the end, memorable for its spirited friendships and unpreachy soul-searching." Kirkus Reviews "Ginny's deft and engaging narration reveals a delightful and totally believable teen. [T]he overall impact of this psychological novel is so powerful." Booklist

Alien Horizons
Alien Horizons

Author: Nigel Suckling

Publisher: Collins & Brown

Published: 2000-02

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9781850283362

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AMENDED ENTRY. Previously announced as SPACE STATIONS, by Robin Kerrod, weekly list no. 8, dated 24th February, 1995